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Clara Rehmann @ramencult.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

New preprint! We find a novel signal of positive selection in georeferenced genotype data, then use this signal to identify in-progress selective sweeps in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sweeps in space: leveraging geographic data to identify beneficial alleles in Anopheles gambiae

As organisms adapt to environmental changes, natural selection modifies the frequency of non-neutral alleles. For beneficial mutations, the outcome of this process may be a selective sweep, in which a...

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